No Super Tuesday for Colorado’s Trump hating GOP: Bernie was helped, Rubio hindered

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No Super Tuesday for Colorado’s Trump hating GOP: Bernie was helped, Rubio hindered

Mike Littwin
March 01, 2016

We knew back in September that the Colorado Republican Party had made a major error when it dumped the presidential preference poll in the midst of maybe the wildest Republican race ever.

It was a huge gaffe, a blow against small-d democracy, a self-inflicted wound made worse when party chair Steve House — having survived the Coffman-Tancredo coup attempt — explained the decision by saying he was worried too many people would turn out for the caucuses. As I might have mentioned at the time, we knew Republicans were trying to tamp down the Democratic vote, but who’d have thought they didn’t want Republicans voting either?

At the time, the only reasonable explanation for the unilateral disarmament was that party leaders were afraid Colorado Republican voters, left to their own devices, would make a statewide leap onto the Trumpian bandwagon.

Yes, Colorado.

If you think I exaggerate, read Nate Cohn’s data-filled examination of Super Tuesday in The New York Times. He thinks of the 11 states in play that Rubio has a shot at two – Minnesota and Virginia. But his best shot, he writes, would have been Colorado, with its mix of voters that run to the highly educated and to the highly religious, which would have been a good mix for Rubio, who is being supported by Cory Gardner and most of the GOP establishment.

Still, as Cohn points out, Rubio “will not have the opportunity to win . . .” Because, you know.
At the same time that Rubio can’t win, Colorado Democrats may provide Bernie Sanders with one of his few Super Tuesday chances for victory in his attempt to diminish Hillary Clinton’s powerhouse move though the South.

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/158045/littwin-no-super-tuesday-for-colorados-trump-hating-gop